Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase
Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London; author of The causes of planetary motion 1838; The antiquities and folk lore of Worcestershire 2 ed. 1852, the best work on local field names ever published. d. Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29 Jany. 1856.
ALLIOTT, Rev. Richard (son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham). b. 1 Sep 1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840; assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40; ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth 1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of Psychology and Theology 1854. d. Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.
ALLMAN, Thomas. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. d. 2 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.
ALLOCK, Jon Junim. b. China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived at Glasgow about 1845 to death. d. Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged nearly 80.
ALLOM, Thomas. b. London 13 March 1804; articled to Francis Goodwin, architect; furnished the drawings for many illustrated works published by Virtue & Co. and Heath and Co.; exhibited drawings at the R.A.; made for Sir Charles Barry the drawings of new Houses of Parliament which were presented to Nicholas Czar of Russia. d. 1 Lonsdale road, Barnes, Surrey 21 Oct. 1872.
ALLSOP, Thomas. b. Stainsborough hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire 10 April 1795; a stockbroker in London; the favourite disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; great friend of Charles Lamb, Robert Owen and other eminent men; author of Letters, conversations and recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols. 1836; California and its gold mines in 1852–3. d. Exmouth, Devon 12 April 1880. bur. Woking cemetery 17 April. Dictionary of national biography i, 337–39 (1885).
ALMOND, Emma (dau. of Mr. Romer). b. 1814; first appeared on stage at Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1830 as Donna Clara in The Duenna; the original Zerlina in Auber’s opera Fra Diavolo at C.G. 3 Nov. 1831; original singer of title parts in Barnett’s Mountain Sylph and Fair Rosamond; chief singer at English opera house; sang at Westminster Abbey festival 1834; sang at Drury Lane 1836; manager of the Surrey theatre 1852, where she brought out a series of operas in English. (m. 1836 George Almond of Bond st. hatter, he d. Nov. 1863). d. Clifton terrace, Margate 14 April 1868. bur. Brompton cemetery 21 April. Actors by daylight ii, 57 (1839), portrait.
ALSBURY, George. Stipendiary magistrate and pres. of island of Anguilla, Caribbee islands 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Jany. 1868. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 10 Nov. 1879.
ALSTON, Edward Graham. Ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1857; registrar general of Vancouver island Feb. 1861, of British Columbia 1 June 1870; attorney general of Sierra Leone 13 May 1871 to death, and Queen’s advocate July 1871 to death. d. Sierra Leone 12 Sep. 1872 in 40 year.
ALSTON, Edward Richard. b. Stockbriggs near Lesmahagow 1 Dec. 1845; zoological sec. of Linnæan society 1880 to death; contributed to the Proceedings of Zoological society 1874–80; author of the division Mammalia in Salvin and Godman’s Biologia Centrali-Americana 1879. d. 14 Maddox st. London 7 March 1881.
ALTHANS, John (son of Henry Althans the friend of popular education). Connected with Religious tract society 47 years and trade manager the last 6 years. d. West lodge, White Hart lane, Tottenham 15 Dec. 1882 aged 66.
ALVANLEY, Richard Pepper Arden, 3 Baron. b. the Rolls house, Chancery lane, 8 Dec. 1792; major 84 foot 26 Sep. 1822 to 30 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 9 Nov. 1849. d. 12 Bruton st. London 24 June 1857.
Note.—His library was sold by Sotheby 15–20 Feb. 1858.
ALVES, John. b. Elgin 1787; captain 74 foot 2 Nov. 1830 to 17 Aug. 1841 when placed on half pay; granted a service reward 27 Jany. 1854; M.G. 5 Dec. 1856; sergeant at arms to the Queen 1855 to death. d. 14 King st. St. James’s, London 18 Sep. 1860.
AMBROSE, George James. Lieut. col. 3 Foot 31 Dec. 1857 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Brislington 19 July 1862 aged 38.
AMCOTTS, Weston Cracroft. b. 9 March 1815; ed. at Eton; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1861; M.P. for Mid-Lincolnshire (Lib.) 1868–74. d. Harrogate 14 July 1883.
AMESBURY, Joseph (youngest child of Joseph Amesbury of Huntspill, Somerset who d. about 1802). b. Huntspill 15 Oct. 1795; M.R.C.S. 4 Aug. 1820; a surgeon in London 1820–58; opened a private spinal establishment at 59 Burton crescent 1838; lived at 26 Fitzroy sq. 1847–58; invented apparatus for cure of stiff joints, spinal curvature, and other deformities for which he took out 3 patents; author of Practical remarks on nature and treatment of fractures of the trunk and extremities 2 vols. 1831. d. 93 Lansdowne place, Brighton 27 March 1864.
AMEUNEY, Antonius George (son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia). b. Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus 1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859; professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death; author of Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family 1860. d. 87 Seymour st. London 16 Sep. 1881.
AMHERST, William Pitt Amherst, 1 Earl of (only son of Wm. Amherst 1732–81, governor of Newfoundland). b. Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec. 1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July 1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah 24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of £3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. d. Knole house near Sevenoaks 13 March 1857. bur. in Sevenoaks church. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery vol. 1 (1830), portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 337–41; Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China 1817; Mill’s History of British India, by H. H. Wilson, vol. iii, 1848.
AMHERST, Right Rev. Francis Kerril (eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis Fortescue Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester). b. London 21 March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6 June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton 14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa 1880; author of Lenten thoughts 1873, 4 ed. 1880. d. Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. bur. R.C. cathedral, Northampton 28 Aug.
AMHERST, G. A. b. London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July 1817 in The blue devils at Haymarket theatre; visited United states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in Mazeppa 2 April 1838; author of many plays. d. in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug. 1851.
AMOS, Andrew (son of James Amos of Devonshire sq. London, Russian merchant). b. India 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; 5 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; fellow of his college 1815–23; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1818; went Midland circuit 1818–37; professor of English law in Univ. of London 1829–37; recorder of Banbury, Nottingham and Oxford; member of first criminal law commission 1834–43; 4th ordinary member of supreme council of India 11 Oct. 1837 to 15 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts for Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone, circuit 44, March 1847 to Sep. 1852; Downing professor of laws of England in Univ. of Cam.